refuting

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v. Present participle of refute.

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Just because you risk being found spuriously guilty by association, it does not follow that you have a stake in refuting the guilt of those (false) associates, anymore than libertarians need either defend McVeigh or try to claim he was not a libertarian.

Edwards knows Obama is too far left, too tax hungry, can't stand up to why he voted "present" one hundred times, can't make decisions as in refuting Wright and Ayers, has contributor skeletons and on and on.

Instead of spinning wheels in refuting the “libertarian” lunacy, over and over again, with no responses but canned “answers,” tell them, “OK, I’ll pretend to bite: name one current society that operates according to ‘libertarian’ principles.”

The Sophists represent a phase of Greek thought which, while it had no constructive value, and is, indeed, a step backward and not forward, in the course of Greek speculation is nevertheless of great importance historically, because it was the evil influence of the Sophists that inspired Socrates with the idea of refuting them by showing the conditions of true knowledge.